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WASHINGTON — Newtown activists on Thursday helped introduce the first gun safety bill in this Congress, officially kicking off the gun control debate on Capitol Hill. The bill would ban large capacity ammunition clips for everyone but military members and law enforcement officers. It was introduced by Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-5th District, in the House and Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., in the Senate. The bill's proponents characterized the legislation as a needed safety measure, like seat belts or airbags, that would save lives, not only those threatened by a mass murderer, but also police who are often outgunned by criminals. "This year is the first year in U.S. history that...

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WASHINGTON — Newtown activists on Thursday helped introduce the first gun safety bill in this Congress, officially kicking off the gun control debate on Capitol Hill.The bill would ban large capacity ammunition clips for everyone but military members...

STORRS – Long before the doors opened, Jim Calhoun liked what he saw."I remember seeing the artist's renderings of it, and they had snow around it," Calhoun said. "I wanted UConn to have a special place, and it was. When you come up on...

Thanks to writer Jim Gorzelany for his "On The Road" cover story, "What Is Your Car Trying To Tell You?" [Jan. 21]. I now have lists in my cars and one hanging in my garage. It is not only useful information but it could save some...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — There have been two pressing questions in the hours and days leading to the AFC Championship Game.1. How many times will the Patriots run the ball against the Colts?2. Who will be the first to open his mouth and erase any doubt that...

This teenage Muslim-American was horrified by the news of an attack on the Paris office of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The Muslim extremists who carried out the deadly shootings had apparently lashed out against the magazine for...

Once again, Courant sports columnist Jeff Jacobs was named Connecticut sportswriter of the year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
Jacobs, 59, has won the award 10 times. He has been at The Courant since 1984 and has been...

Once again, Courant sports columnist Jeff Jacobs was named Connecticut sportswriter of the year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
Jacobs, 59, has won the award 10 times. He has been at The Courant since 1984 and has been...

The Courant editorial "We Are All Charlie" [Jan. 8] correctly observes that the slaughter of staff at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was an attack against everyone in a free society. It was calculated to stifle fee speech...

Barbarians kill journalists to try to silence other journalists. And when has that ever worked?
But the craven monsters who killed a dozen people at a satirical magazine in Paris on Wednesday targeted more than writers and cartoonists. Every person who...

It appears that our computer superstars quickly identified the source of the Sony problem in only a few days as originating in North Korea. With such expertise at our disposal, why has "Rachael at Credit Card Services" been allowed to annoy...

When it comes to dining like a celebrity, opinions about the Hartford area were stellar over the weekend.
Connecticut Magazine crowned Max Downtown the state's "Best For Overall Excellence" and "Best American" in its "Best...

It's time for a look at books published in 2014 by Connecticut authors.
Roz Chast, The New Yorker cartoonist, published the funny yet heartbreaking graphic memoir, "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" (Bloomsbury USA,$28).
Novelist...

Politics have a way of seeping into everything, right?
You can add the Super Bowl, too.
That's right, Congress — yes Congress — could bring Super Bowl XLIX to a screeching halt if it doesn't get its act together by New Year's Eve.
Lauren Simonetti of...

NEW YORK — Gun rights advocates wrangled with the state in federal appeals court Tuesday over Connecticut's recently enacted bans on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, both of which were among the firearms regulations passed last year...

The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in the case of Shew vs. Malloy, a legal challenge to the key provisions of Connecticut's post-Newtown gun control legislation.
The lawsuit, filed by a coalition of state gun...

If you haven't had your fill of political debate and chatter, you can get a heaping helping when the Mark Twain House & Museum presents ultra-conservative Canadian author, recording artist and rights activist Mark Steyn in conversation with...

We are the pit bull that is seen with wary eyes; if we come too close, then it's goodbye. Regardless of whether we are calm, courteous and nonthreatening in demeanor, we are deemed suspicious and dangerous, which makes it justifiable to put us down with a...

Democrats may have won every statewide office, re-won every U.S. House seat, and kept majorities in both houses of the state legislature in the last election.
But the Nov. 4 results were not the inevitable outcome of a powerhouse of a state Democratic...

Sports columnist Jeff Jacobs has made a career out his oft-biting opinions of the sports world, including our own UConn Huskies. Yet he has the audacity to skewer UConn head football coach Bob Diaco for stating his own opinion of sports reporters [Nov....

The Mark Twain House & Museum and Harriet Beecher Stowe Center will present two talks on social issues at the Twain House Museum Center, 351 Farmington Ave., Hartford.
On Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 7:30 p.m., Katha Pollitt, a longtime columnist for The...